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@caelarue.northsky.social

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Midwestern Xennial: Great Lakes Edition. She/Her. Neurodivergent AF. Park enthusiast (city, county, state--they're all great). Occasional shutterbug. Poster of cool art every morning. The rest, you'll figure out as we go along. www.caelarue.com

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- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 12h

Mornin'. Have some Nerrida Parfitt to start your day. #Art

A painting of a car (a white sedan), driving at either the crack of dawn or at nightfall down a one-lane road that is lined with tall fir trees. Our view of the car is from behind, so while we can't see the road being lit up by the car's headlights, we can see them illuminating the sides of the road. We can see the dark orange of the horizon, and the color of the sky shifts from that to green and to dark blue, studded with small specks of white to represent stars.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 19/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Charley Harper to start your day. #Art

A print of red-winged blackbirds, flying en masse across a clear, blue sky. The flock of birds is made up entirely of male red-winged blackbirds, so its just a cluster of black birds with the distinctive red-and-yellow patches on their wings. They are flying towards the right-hand side of frame. Overlapping them are a few autumn leaves, matching the colors of the birds' patches, being blown towards the left-hand side of frame.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

One day, I'll get better at identifying what kind of fungi I'm looking at. Until then, I'm just going to keep thinking they're neat and go from there.

A photo of some sort of tree fungus, growing on a tree. It has a fan shape similar to turkey tail, but I don't think that's what it is, since it's mostly light brown and white with black edges. It is growing along with some green lichen.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Matthew Simmonds to start your day. #Art

A sculpture, carved out of marble, to resemble a stairwell in a cathedral. The sculpture concerns itself with just a section of the stairwell, with the main focus being a small landing, where we see the high, vaulted ceilings and what appears to be two small alcoves carved into the stone wall.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Nenad Bacanovic to start your day. #Art

An abstract photograph, showing a blue wall that has been scratched, showing underlayers of yellow and red.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Jethro Buck to start your day. #Art

A painting of a forest, as seen from above and a distance. The forest has many different kinds of trees in it, and the leaves are all different colors (green, gold, red, etc.) In the foreground, we can just see a river and its bank. The forest is not just full of trees, but there are birds (both along the riverbank and in the trees), deer, a bear, squirrels, a fox, a human resting under a tree close to the bottom of the painting, and an angel, flying close to the top. The sky above is gold, and full of swirling cirrus clouds.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Graciela Iturbide to start your day. #Art

A black and white photo of a child, dressed as a bridal calaca (skeleton) for El Día de Los Muertos. The child is standing outside, in front of a brick wall. They are wearing a long-sleeved gown, a veil and a skull mask. Their right arm is extended out at their side, holding out the veil and allowing it to drape down towards the ground. They are holding a bouquet of flowers in their left hand.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Luis Cruz Azaceta to start your day. #Art

A painting of a green 1950s Cadillac convertible. It is shown from the side with the rag top up. The background is made up of nothing but license plates numbers. On the car itself are rolling green hills and houses, with one lone house on a hill over where the window would be.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Narsiso Martinez to start your day. #Art

A multimedia work, consisting of a stack of cardboard flats of strawberries with the image of a migrant fieldworker printed on the side of them.

Another stack of cardboard strawberry boxes, but this time, the image printed on them is of a strawberry-picking robot.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Ana Mendieta to start your day. #Art

An art installation in a gallery, consisting of several black candles, arranged to create the outline of a woman's body on the gallery floor. The candles have been lit for some time, and the wax has dripped onto the floor.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Remember a while back, when I went for a walk at the local bog and thought maybe I'd gotten a decent pic of a butterfly? Well, turns out I did! #BloomScrolling #Butterfly

A common buckeye butterfly, feeding from some aster in a meadow on a warm autumn afternoon.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Pedro Reyes to start your day. #Art

A sculpture of a fist, made from black marble, in a white art gallery setting.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's #Caturday, so here's Marceline in her new favorite hangout spot: An empty Vigo Black Beans & Rice box.

A long-haired green-eyed white tabby, lying in a shallow yellow cardboard box. The box is on the kitchen floor, next to the kitchen island. She is holding her head upright, and her fluffy tail is resting on top of one of the box flaps.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Abraham Ángel to start your day. #Art

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some John Nieto to start your day. #Art

A painting of a buffalo on a plain in front of a mountain range.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Meanwhile, this is Marceline anytime I sit down for more than five minutes.

A long-haired white tabby, napping on my lap.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Patrick Martinez to start your day. #Art

A mixed media work, made to resemble a billboard that has has new signage pasted over it, but the old signage is showing through. The top layer is painted to look like a beach at sunset, with a neon light made to resemble palmetto trees. Underneath are ceramic tiles creating a colorful zigzag pattern, lush vegetation and a person painted in the Mayan style.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Wilson Diaz to start your day. #Art

A print, listing the scientific name for the coca plant (erythroxylon novorgranatense) and the various indigenous names for it (hayo, jayo, maase, jipia, hibia, hibianga, jibbiae, hibi, hibio, jibbi, ebee, jipi, jibie, ipado, ipadu, ypadu, coca, kukka). The words are stenciled in ink made from the seeds of the coca plant on white cardstock.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Leonilda González to start your day. #Art

An engraving of a man, hiding in a hut in a forest that is surrounded by tigers. The man and the hut are in red ink, and the rest of the engraving are in black in on. The man is sitting on he ground, cowering in fear. The tigers are arranged on all side of his hut, and they are watching it avidly, waiting for him to come out. The forest around them appears to be made of ombú trees. Above all of this, a flock of birds fly, seemingly unaware or indifferent to the scene playing out below them.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Clotilde Jiménez to start your day. #Art

A mixed media work, depicting an elderly Latin man and Latin child, picking oranges. The elderly man is standing with is back facing us, dressed like a jíbaro (long-sleeved white shirt, white trousers, pava hat), while the child is wearing denim overalls and a long-sleeved white shirt. They are picking oranges and putting them into a bag that the elderly man is holding.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Caleb Hahne Quintana to start your day. #Art

A drawing of a Latin man, standing on a horse's bare back. The man is wearing belted blue jeans, black boots and a black cowboy hat. He has the black horse by the reins, and both are looking out at us. The landscape they are in is flat and has muted colors, and the sunlight appears to be quite dim, either on the verge of setting completely or just about to rise.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Carmen Lomas Garza to start your day. #Art

A painting of a prickly pear cactus, where horned lizards eat the fallen fruit.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Frida Kahlo to start your day. #Art

A painting of the artist's feet and legs, from her perspective of laying partially submerged in the bathtub. Overlaying her legs are the following images:

* A Tehuana dress, floating in the water
* A woman in the water, being strangled by a length of rope by a man, who is lying on a beach
* A root plant
* A seashell riddled with bullet holes
* A skyscraper emerging from an active volcano
* A dead woodpecker
* An image of her parents, posing for a formal portrait
* A skeleton, sitting on a small hill
* A ship with billowing sails
* Two women on a raft, one of them laying with her head on the other's lap

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mornin'. Have some Sandra Eleta to start your day. #Art

A black and white photograph of a housekeeper in Panama sometime between 1975 and 1989. The housekeeper (whose name is given as Gladys) is a petite Latin woman, sitting curled up in an ornate wooden chair. She is wearing a housekeeper's uniform, a wristwatch and her dark hair is drawn up into a bun on the top of her head. On her right shoulder are two lovebirds, one of whom she appears to be feeding with her left hand. Across her lap is a long-handled feather duster. Behind her is a large vase with a floral arrangement in it.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Mario Urteaga Alvarado to start your day. #Art

A painting depicting a funeral procession in Peru circa 1936. The procession is made entirely of people, some of who are carrying the casket on a litter down a cobblestone street. The men in the procession are wearing trousers, straw hats, boots, button-down shirts and either jackets or ponchos. The women are wearing long skirts, blouses, lliclas and straw hats as well. At the head of the procession are men playing the drums, as well as flag-bearer carrying the Peruvian flag, indicating that the deceased was a person of importance to the country.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Teresita Fernández to start your day. #Art

An abstract metal sculpture, installed on a white gallery wall. The sculpture is painted gold, and the metal looks lacy and delicate, like something organic growing on the wall.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Diego Rivera to start your day. #Art

A painting of a man setting a bundle of white calla lilies before three young girls for the festival of Santa Anita Mexico in 1925. The three girls are in the foreground, their backs facing us as the kneel on the ground, wearing white blouses, black skirts and floral crowns on their heads. The man is standing in front of them, dressed in a white, as he lowers a large woven basket full of white calla lilies to the ground. Behind the man are others, dressed in more vibrant colors and carrying bouquets of large red flowers (poppies?) that are also being laid on the ground in front of the girls.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Eduardo Robledo to start your day. #Art

A serigraph depicting a deer standing in front of some maguey plants, as the sun rises behind him. The deer's head is turned so that it can look behind him at the stylized heart in the sky. Also stylized is the sun, made to resemble Tonatiuh, the Aztec sun deity.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's #Caturday, so here's Marceline, who apparently needs a refresher course on How To Use Cushions.

A long-haired white tabby, napping on the couch. Instead of propping herself up on the yellow throw pillow, she has somehow wedged herself between it and the couch, making her look like an awkward little fluffball.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Teresita Leal to start your day. #Art

A patchwork quilt, made entirely of patches of different shades of green. The patches towards the edges are a darker green and larger squares and rectangles, and in the center, the patches are smaller in size and lighter in color.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Emilio Sanchez to start your day. #Art

A painting, depicting a traffic jam in an intersection in a large city (most likely Times Square in New York City) in 1979. Our view is from above, looking down into the intersection, where traffic is bottlenecked, causing the streets to be full of cars. It is dark, so the cars all have their headlights on, and the lights are on in the buildings that line the streets. The colors used are mostly black, and pale yellow, with orange and a little light blue for fine details.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Ana Mercedes Hoyos to start your day. #Art

A painting of six Black girls. The girls appear to be grouped by age, with the older girls in the background and the younger ones in the foreground. All six girls are wearing dresses, with the three girls in the background wearing yellow dresses and the three in the foreground wearing blue dresses. They all are all wearing their hair up and jewelry; the girls in the background wearing gold necklaces and earrings, the girls in the foreground wearing colorful beaded necklaces. Our view of the girls is from behind them, and they appear to be watching something happen just out of frame off to the left.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Moises Salazar to start your day. #Art

A mixed media work, depicting a Latine person wearing a blue mortarboard cap and graduation gown, made using colored glitter (with the exception of the tassel, which is real), against a pink background. The person has short hair and has no defined facial features. Around the edge of the portrait is a border of pink rick rack trim. Written multiple times over the image in gold glitter is a Spanish homophobic slur.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Lola Álvarez Bravo to start your day. #Art

A black and white photo, showing the shadow cast by an unfinished porch upon the outer wall of a house and the brick wall surrounding it. The shadows create a lattice-like pattern on both the house and the wall, and because the sun is so bright, the shadows are crisp and clear.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some José Basso to start your day. #Art

A landscape painting of a house in the countryside at night. Our view of the house is from a very long way off, so it's very small. There is a tree near it, and a couple more trees further in the background. Most of the canvas is taken up by the yellow field and the night sky above, where a faint waxing crescent moon can be seen.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Agueda Martínez to start your day. #Art

A woven cotton sheet, made in the Chimayó style, consisting of stripes with a diamond shape as the central motif.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's #Caturday, so here's Marceline, who is sulking because she isn't allowed to nip at me while I'm exercising.

A long-haired green-eyed white tabby, lying on her side on a patterned bedspread. She is in the guest room because she was trying to get my attention by nipping at my ankle as I was lifting weights, and she's surly about it.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Conrad Ruíz to start your day. #Art

A watercolor painting of French marigolds. A marigold in full bloom dominates the canvas, surrounded by others either also in full bloom, past their prime or on the edge of blooming.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Tanya Aguiñiga to start your day. #Art

Five metal folding chairs, each hand felted in a different color (light green, red, royal blue, gold and silver). The chairs are unfolded and piled in a jumbled-up manner in a white gallery space.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Ruben Natal-San Miguel to start your day. #Art

A photographic portrait of a young Black man in Astoria, Queens in 2015. The man is standing facing the camera. He has long, straightened hair and is pulling it aside, as well as pulling on a silver chain he's wearing around his neck and the collar of his sleeveless shirt to show off his tattoos. The one closest to his throat is in Arabic, but beneath that, in large cursive lettering on the upper part of his chest is the word "Priceless". He has a small nose ring and is wearing two bracelets on his left wrist; on his right forearm are some more tattoos. He has a very thin mustache and an equally-thin goatee. The man is looking directly into the camera, his expression neutral. Behind him is something made from steel (maybe a train car? Maybe a building? Hard to say.)

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Rafael Doníz to start your day. #Art

A black and white photograph of what looks like a little plateau against a partly-cloudy sky. I don't think it's actually a proper plateau, since it has a strange muffin-top thing happening, but it is certainly not level with the ground. The top of the (maybe?) plateau has grass and, off to the left side of frame, a small tree.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Criselda Vasquez to start your day. #Art

A painting of a Mexican-American couple (the artist's parents), posed in a homage to Grant Wood's "American Gothic". The woman is standing to the left, dressed in a light blue T-shirt and black slacks and shoes, holding a red pail full of cleaning products. Her hair is pulled back into a low ponytail, and she is standing slightly behind the man and turned slightly towards him. The man is facing forward, wearing a long-sleeved light gray T-shirt, blue jeans and brown work boots, and he is holding a gardening hoe in his right hand. His hair is cut short and he has a goatee. The couple is standing in front of the rear door of a red Chevrolet Astro, which appears to be a little dirty, since someone wrote "Hi" and drew a frowny face in the dust on the glass.

This portrait was originally painted in 2017, but became part of a new story when the artist's father was arrested and detained by ICE in March 2026. As of May of 2026, he has been released on bond and returned home, and he and his family are working to secure his place in the United States.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

You realize you just gave me the opportunity to share the local treat, Chocolate Charlie:

A candy made of milk chocolate, peanuts and marshmallows, cut into squares and served on a plate. In the background, we can just make out a glass dish with even more of the candy in it.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some John Scorror O'Connor to start your day. #Art

A painting of a pond/small lake at moonrise in what appears to be autumn. The tall grasses encircling the water have turned brown, and our view of the water is through them. On the far side of the water are a stand of trees, where we can see the waxing crescent moon through a gap in the trees, hanging low in the sky.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Tali Weinberg to start your day. #Art

A piece of woven cloth, made to reflect a silt study for the Upper Mississippi River Basin. The following is from the artist's website:

Silt—tiny particles of eroded rocks and mineral—are carried by flowing water, eventually deposited elsewhere as sediment. When ecosystems are polluted, silt goes from benign to destructive, carrying with it the toxins it is exposed to as it moves from one part of a watershed to another. As the detritus of our human life on land runs downstream and then circulates back through bodies, watersheds are one window into the interdependence of ecological and human health.

In each weaving, temperature data for one of the 18 major US watersheds is materialized as hand-dyed, color-coded cotton. In my translation of the data, 126 years takes form as 18 rows of color, each row an average of 7 years of temperature. I interweave these plant-derived fibers with petrochemical-derived fishing line, drawing connections between rising temperatures, petrochemical extraction, and the buildup of toxic plastics in the earth and our bodies. Up close, one can see the warp threads curving as they travel through the wefts, the arc of the threads evoking a gentle wave, the bend of a river, the force of being moved by alternating plant and petrochemical material.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Jethro Buck to start your day. #Art

A painting of a horse chestnut tree on white paper. The tree's branches are full of green leaves and flowers.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Katrin Rodegast to start your day. #Art

A paper sculpture, made to resemble human lungs, set against a green background.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Benny Bing to start your day. #Art

A portrait of a Black woman, sitting at a 3/4 angle to the viewer. She is wearing a red and black floral blouse and large, dangly earrings in front of a yellow background. Her hair is long, worn in dreadlocks with an undercut, but she has it pulled up in an updo. Her gaze is fixed on us, and the expression on her face is neutral.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Barbara Pratt to start your day. #Art

A painting of a train as it winds its way around a bend towards Toronto, Ontario, at sunrise. Our view is from atop one of the train cars closest to the foreground, so we can see the early morning light shining on the grooves in the metal. The rest of the train is ahead of us, already having made it around the bend and heading towards the right side of the canvas. In the background are trees, silhouetted against the pale yellow sky, the blue-gray clouds and the wisps of pink that let us know the sun will be up shortly.

- Micaela @caelarue.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mornin'. Have some Ed Ruscha to start your day. #Art

A painting, consisting of the following words painted in white on a light blue background:

SOME PRETTY EYES
AND
SOME ELECTRIC BILLS